EMC Connectrix B Series Hardware Reference Manual page 102

Glossary
Bit Synchronization
Blind-Mate Connector
Boot Code
Boot Flash
Broadcast
Buffer-to-Buffer Flow
Control
Bypass Circuitry
Cascade
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BISR Built In Self Repair.
BIST Built In Self Test
The condition in which a receiver is delivering re-timed serial data at
the required BER.
A two-way connector used in some SilkWorm switches to provide a
connection between the motherboard and the power supply.
Block As applies to Fibre Channel, upper-level application data that is
transferred in a single sequence.
Software that initialized the system environment during the early
phase of the boot-up process. For example, boot code may determine
the amount of available memory and how to access it.
Flash memory that stores the boot code and boot parameters. The
processor executes its first instructions from boot flash. Data is
cached in RAM.
Bport Back-end port of the ASIC.
The transmission of data from a single source to all devices in the
fabric, regardless of zoning. See also Multicast and Unicast.
Management of the frame transmission rate in either a point-to-point
topology or in an arbitrated loop. See also BB_Credit.
Circuits that automatically remove a device from the data path when
valid signals are dropped.
C
CA Certificate authority. A trusted organization that issues digital
certificates. See also Digital Certificate.
CAM Content-addressable memory.
CAN Campus area network. A network comprising a limited area but not
just one building. See also LAN, MAN, WWN.
The interconnection means through which data flows from one
switch to another in a fabric.